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  From: Alan Kennington <akenning@dog.topology.org>
  To  : David Lloyd <lloy0076@rebel.net.au>
  Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 14:46:22 +1030

Re: Putty and RSA (Public Style) Keys

On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 12:47:55PM +1030, David Lloyd wrote:
> 
> How does one get putty to use OpenSSH generate public ids?
> 

David,

This was discussed very briefly way back on 27 September 2000.

http://www.linuxsa.org.au/mailing-list/2000-09/1221.html
http://www.linuxsa.org.au/mailing-list/2000-09/1222.html

The answer was that putty does not do public key authentication
because they author couldn't see a use for it.
Well, I _can_ see a use for it.
But I have to put up with using standard passwords instead.

Cheers,
Alan Kennington.

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